When you first begin building the island paradise of your dreams in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, there will be a handful of buildings that unlock by default as part of the tutorial on how to build your island. From there, though, there are still a few more left to add – but when?
In this guide, we’re taking a look at every building in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream and explaining when it unlocks as you progress your island, what you need to do to unlock it if such a thing is manual, and what all the buildings do.
Every Building Serves A Unique Purpose On Your Island
Though the purpose of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is to create a series of Miis and watch them live out life together in an island paradise of your design, you won’t get very far in making them unique or keeping them happy without a series of shops or buildings to place around the island, too.
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Play games with your Miis in Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream in exchange for a slew of valuable treasures.
Beginning with the game’s tutorial, you’ll progress through building your island and learning the basics, but additional buildings unlock as you complete various goals around the island. Some will be all but given to you – those most important to keeping your Miis, well, living the dream – but others that are more secondary will be gated unlocks that you’ll need to work toward by progressing your island and making everyone happy over time.
We’ve dedicated a section to every building in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream down below to help explain what it is, when it unlocks, and why you’ll want this building on your island.
The Wishing Fountain
Arguably the most central location on your island will be the Fountain, which starts off in the center of your island but can be moved with the Island Builder tool once it unlocks. This is where you’ll spend Warm Fuzzies to upgrade your island over time, earning a series of rewards as you go. It’ll also be where several of your primary events take place, so you’ll be here fairly often.
Choose from a series of items, like:
- Level Up rewards, like quirks that make your Miis more distinctive or items to give your Miis when they level up.
- T&C Reno Home Supply interior sets.
- Quik Build amenities to add new exterior decorations.
- Island Builder patterns for a change of pace with your walkways.
- Palette House workshop unlocks to add custom designs to new items
- Travel Tickets to take your Miis on trips around the world.
The Wishing Fountain is also where you’ll want to stop at the beginning of every day to gather the island funds that’ve been raised overnight. The Miis contribute daily, so always be sure to check!
Fresh Kingdom
Introduced as soon as you’ve created your first Mii and asked them about the pondering bubble near their heads, they’ll tell you they’re hungry. You’ll then be able to place Fresh Kingdom, the local grocery store that sells a continuously growing selection of different foods to feed your Miis.
They’ll have four specialty items each day, which will likely be a new food or two, given that there are almost 500 unique food items in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. You’ll enter the store and see the Daily Specials screen, offering four items for a limited time that will refresh each day to offer something for everyone.
Food costs money, so come prepared to spend! Once you’ve logged a food for the first time, you can buy it again from Fresh Kingdom anytime. Every item that isn’t in the Daily Specials can be purchased from the other tabs in the store’s menu, with sections for meals, desserts, beverages, and any foods you create by hand to offer your Miis a creative selection of options.
Wear & Where
After you’ve made three Miis, you’ll be gain access to Wear & Where, a clothing store that’ll become your home for every fashion item and piece of clothing in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Here, you can buy:
- Full outfits that feature things like pre-styled clothing sets, theatrical costumes, and more.
- Tops, with every style you can imagine rotating through seasonally.
- Bottoms, offering everything from pants to shorts to skirts, and even a few oddball pieces like diapers.
- Headgear, where you’ll find things like hats, masks, ribbons, costume pieces, and more.
- Accessories, which can be anything from fancy necklaces to dinosaur tails and anything in between.
- Socks of all shapes, styles, and colors.
- Shoes for any occasion or style.
- Full-body suits that are rather specific in style – think things like the food costumes, the vehicles, the objects, and the like.
- Custom designs you’ve made yourself for Miis to wear around the island.
On the very first tab, though, you’ll find a list of Daily Specials here, too, with a row of full outfits along the top that come with everything shown in the photo for the price in the menu. There’ll also be a few outfit pieces below the row of outfits to buy individually, with two options each day for the mainstay clothing groups.
T&C Reno
The very first building that requires you to have two pairs of friends between four Miis on the island when you first begin, T&C Reno is your home for everything home renovation and design.
Here, you can find anything you’ll need to redo the interior or exterior decor of your Miis’ homes. Referred to as “sets” in the game, these are full-room decoration styles you can give to your Miis to help them express themselves just as much in their personal space as you’re having them do with their quirks, styles, lingo, and more.
Though you’ll mostly unlock new set options manually as wishes when upgrading your island at the Fountain, you’ll still see a Weekly Special at T&C Reno that will, unlike the food and clothing store specials, remain for a full week of real time. This gives you time to save the cash to grab some of the more luxious and limited-edition sets.
Once you’ve unlocked the ability to renovate exteriors, you’ll also be able to do so from T&C Reno as well. There are no premade exteriors in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream so far; you’ll need to unlock the ability to create custom exterior designs from wishing at the Fountain and create your own to change up the outsides of Miis’ homes just as much as the inside.
Quik Build
Once you’ve built the T&C Reno location on your island, you’ll be encouraged to make five Miis for your island, after which point you’ll unlock the Quik Build building, which is where you’ll go to unlock and purchase new exterior decoration items to spice up the view around your island.
Here, you’ll find everything from fences to flowers, from trees to toys, and just about anything else you could ever hope to need when you’re using the Island Designer to customize your island. You’ll progressively unlock new items for the Quik Build selection as you grant wishes for said items at the Fountain as you level up, and each time you choose to have them stock something new, you’ll receive one for free to get you started.
Visit anytime you need to spend your cash on decorative items to use in the Island Builder, and then design an island paradise of your dreams with them!
Palette House
We’ve alluded to it already, but once you’ve made six Miis for your island, you’ll unlock access to the Palette House, a new feature in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream that makes use of the game’s touchscreen capabilities to allow you to draw all kinds of items. You’ll unlock plenty of other things to customize, like:
- Treasures your Miis can give you after playing mini-games or when they have dreams.
- Clothing that’ll end up for sale at Where & Wear once designed.
- Home interiors for your Miis to use in customizing their rooms.
- Home exteriors, customizing the appearance of the overall homes your Miis have on the island.
- Foods that you can give to your Miis to sample.
News Station
The News Station will be your home for all kinds of important informative broadcasts about what’s going on around your island, which sees your Miis taking turns giving newscasts to let you know when you’ve hit new milestones or unlocked important new options.
You’ll need six Miis on the island who have had their happiness raised a few times before you’re able to build the news station. Once it’s placed, you can also see scenes of your Miis there during event videos, catch humorous daily broadcasts, and more.
Rite Price
Whether it’s the series of trophies you earn for hitting milestones, the prizes you get from the minigames you play with your Miis, the memorabilia you’ll get from popping into dreams, or what have you, the best way to sell treasures for cash is by going to Rite Price, the pawn shop.
You’ll need six treasures before this Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream building unlocks, but once it does, it’s a great way to earn a lot more money to help keep your Miis happy.
Tomoria Restaurant
Another more casual location that’ll allow you a peek at some fun additional scenes with your Miis, Tomoria Restaurant is a casual locale where you’ll occasionally see your bonded Miis gathering for a meal and conversation. Though it serves no purpose other than to provide some fun scenes, like the news station before it, you’ll need to keep working on raising happiness to unlock Tomoria Restaurant.
The Market
Running three times each day, you’ll unlock access to the Marketplace once you’ve raised your Miis’ happiness a good amount as you continue to check in on them each day, ensuring they’re all happy and tended to so you can boost your island’s level and the Miis’ overall happiness.
The Morning, Afternoon, and Evening Markets are great ways to obtain all kinds of new items at random, with everything from clothing to food to treasure available at the Marketplace, which is now a truck instead of a small table at the Fountain like it was in the original game. The items for sale in the Marketplace will always be discounted, typically by about 50 percent.
You can also find mystery bags that offer three random items for a flat price of $50, no matter what you end up pulling from them. Play at your own risk, but if you’re keen on cataloguing as many things as you can, it’s a great way to do so. You may even end up with a new food item, which will then be available for regular purchase from Fresh Kingdom so other Miis on the island can try it, too.
Foto-Tomo
Wondering where your friends are getting all those fun posed photos of Miis around the island or on various backdrops? It’s Foto-Tomo, the photo booth functionality that you’ll unlock after you’ve gotten yourself established around the island and improved Mii happiness several times when they ask you for things via their ponder bubbles. You can snap these fun shots in pairs, groups, or XX.
More backdrops unlock as you gain access to new areas or functionalities around the island, so watch for the blinking “New” sign above the building to see when something has been added.
Treasure Shop
My Treasures will be unlocked after you’ve chosen to unlock custom treasure creation at the Palette House as one of your wishes at the Fountain when you level up your island. Once you’ve unlocked the feature and made your very first custom treasure, My Treasures will unlock to sell your custom treasures so you can obtain them as items that can be given to your Miis.
Not only does this shop sell your custom treasures in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, but it also serves as something of a display function for your work. It’ll be named with the name your Miis call you around the island.
MiiWheel Ferris Wheel
One of the more decorative features in the game, you’ll unlock the MiiWheel, the colorful Ferris wheel, after you’ve significantly boosted resident happiness around the island. Your Miis can ride the amusement park ride together as an outing, it’ll be added to the list of places for Miis to confess their feelings to someone else, it unlocks new backdrops at Foto-Tomo, and you’ll gain access to a new mini-game that uses the Ferris wheel at the same time, too.
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